Committees

Environmental diplomacy

Inquiry

This inquiry will examine how the FCO conducts environmental diplomacy, what the UK’s strategy is bringing all government departments together, and the FCO’s management of the tension between environmental goals and other diplomatic objectives. 

In particular, the Committee will focus on preparations for COP26, speaking to other recent host countries and attempting to learn from their experiences.  

Additionally, the Committee will ask how environmental diplomacy can be employed to address the governance of the polar regions. 

 

Read the call for evidence for more details about the inquiry

Upcoming events

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Past events

Tuesday 18 May 2021
1:15pm Private
2:30pm Public
Environmental diplomacy - Oral evidence 18 May 2021
2:30pm
  • Rt Hon Alok Sharma
  • Peter Hill (Chief Executive Officer, COP26 Unit at Cabinet Office)
  • Ros Eales (Chief Operating Officer, COP26 Unit at Cabinet Office)
  • Dr John Murton (UK COP26 Envoy at Cabinet Office)
Virtual meeting
Tuesday 16 March 2021
1:45pm Private
3:15pm Public
Environmental diplomacy - Oral evidence 16 March 2021
3:15pm
  • Laurence Tubiana (Former Climate Change Ambassador and Special Representative for the 2015 COP21 Climate Change Conference and Chief Executive Officer at European Climate Foundation)
2:30pm
  • Dr Katharine Rietig (Senior Lecturer in International Politics at Newcastle University)
  • Professor Robert Falkner (Associate Professor of International Relations at London School of Economics, and Research Director at Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment)
Virtual
Tuesday 19 January 2021
1:45pm Private
2:30pm Public
Environmental diplomacy - Oral evidence 19 January 2021
2:30pm
  • Professor Klaus Dodds (Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway University of London)
  • Dr Richard Powell (Reader in Arctic Studies at Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge)
  • Heather Conley (Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia, and the Arctic; and Director, Europe Program at Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS))
Virtual meeting
Tuesday 10 March 2020
2:30pm Public
Environmental diplomacy - Oral evidence 10 March 2020
2:30pm
  • Pete Betts (Visiting Professor in Practice at Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment)
  • Shane Tomlinson (Deputy Chief Executive Officer at E3G - Third Generation Environmentalism)
  • Katie White (Executive Director Advocacy and Campaigns at WWF)
Room 8, Palace of Westminster

Contact us

We receive a significant number of emails each day. All requests and invitations are considered but we do not respond directly to everyone. Please be aware, the committee does not look at individual cases or specific complaints.

  • Email: fac@parliament.uk
  • Address: Foreign Affairs Committee, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA